Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 314

LEONARDO FIORAVANTI (1517-1588) Il tesoro della vita humana. Appresso gli heredi di Melchior Sessa 1570 327 pp., port. 15.2 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 312

This is the first known edition of the present work and is an important source for the early history of plastic surgery. The book is written mainly in the form of letters from Fioravanti to his colleagues; in one letter he describes a splenectomy performed by a stonecutter at Palermo in the spring of 1549.

Cited references: Durling 1578; Waller 3051 (1582 ed.); Wellcome 2305 (1582 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.